Lightroom on vacation
Jan 25, 2016 09:27:31 #
At Disney yesterday with grandkids loaded pictures (NEF) in. I see the pictures in library but in develop I get only blue screen where photo should be.
Jan 25, 2016 09:50:51 #
Vinman wrote:
At Disney yesterday with grandkids loaded pictures (NEF) in. I see the pictures in library but in develop I get only blue screen where photo should be.
What version of Lightroom, what Nikon camera? It may well be you do not have a current enough version of Lightroom to deal with the version of NEF file your camera puts out....
This could also be a GPU issue... if you go into Lightrooms preferences, uncheck the use GPU setting under performance tab and see if the image is displayed in develop.
Easy fix for the version issue:
1. Upgrade to the more current version that supports your camera's raw file version.
2. Convert the NEF file to DNG with Adobe's DNG converter (FREE) and edit using DNG instead of NEF (Still a raw format).
Jan 25, 2016 09:53:53 #
D750 Nikon, been using all along with home computer. This is new HP laptop I bought for vacation. First time import pictures. I see the pictures but when I hit the develpoe module all I get is blue box fao any picture I choose.
Jan 25, 2016 09:56:01 #
Vinman wrote:
D750 Nikon, been using all along with home computer. This is new HP laptop I bought for vacation. First time import pictures. I see the pictures but when I hit the develpoe module all I get is blue box fao any picture I choose.
Could be a GPU issue... in Lightroom Preferences, uncheck use GPU in performance tab and see if that displays the images.
Jan 25, 2016 09:56:05 #
D750 Nikon, been using all along with home computer. This is new HP laptop I bought for vacation. First time import pictures. I see the pictures but when I hit the develpoe module all I get is blue box far any picture I choose.
Jan 25, 2016 10:24:00 #
Did you load Lightroom from an existing disk? If so, you may have to update (not upgrade) it. I believe check for updates is on the help menu.
Jan 25, 2016 11:52:37 #
Don's and Bill's suggestions are appropriate. Once you get that part solved, I'm interested in how you are going to move your vacation work to your primary computer.
Jan 25, 2016 14:31:18 #
Jan 25, 2016 14:36:31 #
Vinman wrote:
Wonderful!! Now can you give me some hints on how you are going to transfer images from the travel computer to the master computer that includes the Lightroom work you did on the travel computer?got guys. updated driver for graphics and now it works. thanks for all your help.
Jan 25, 2016 16:16:12 #
The blind leading the blind! I could copy catalogue to hard drive then open on desktop, but I'll probably just look at the pix and reload at home.
Jan 26, 2016 10:46:08 #
bsprague wrote:
Don's and Bill's suggestions are appropriate. Once you get that part solved, I'm interested in how you are going to move your vacation work to your primary computer.
Yes, so glad I use PHOTOSHOP CS6, I don't have that (those) problem(s), I can move my files (Raw, Worked on, Completed and ready for printing or web publishing as JPGs, TIF, PSD, etc.) all around all day long with no problems as each is a file! I just could not get into Lightroom. I still have Lr 3 on my Win Vista laptop, but no Lr on my new Win 10 PC. Do note, I have not switched to using Ps CS6 on my new Win 10 PC yet so I am not sure how I will like that set up. Office 2016 and Win 10 are enough of a earning curve for now! :roll:
Jan 26, 2016 12:29:27 #
I did it last night for the first time. It was easy.
On my travel laptop I used a large flash/thumb drive. I made a Vacation folder on it to hold the images, the catalog file and preview files. I used the same automated file structure as the home computer. Each evening I would use LR to import to the vacation catalog and work on images and video clips.
I should add that I used the primary drive on the travel laptop to store backups of my image files so I would always have at least to copies.
When I got home, I plugged the flash/thumb drive into the home computer. I used File > Import from Catalog. I made one mistake on the import destination choice. The images were not exactly where I wanted. Five minutes of dragging and dropping in the Library module fixed it.
On my travel laptop I used a large flash/thumb drive. I made a Vacation folder on it to hold the images, the catalog file and preview files. I used the same automated file structure as the home computer. Each evening I would use LR to import to the vacation catalog and work on images and video clips.
I should add that I used the primary drive on the travel laptop to store backups of my image files so I would always have at least to copies.
When I got home, I plugged the flash/thumb drive into the home computer. I used File > Import from Catalog. I made one mistake on the import destination choice. The images were not exactly where I wanted. Five minutes of dragging and dropping in the Library module fixed it.
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